The self-taught artist and musician from Ladakh, India, explores the confines of memory, the dry rot of intergenerational trauma, and the eerie swarms of the human unconscious.

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Incorporating vernacular concepts, poetic gestures, and improvised chaos, his work serves to transmit sound-collage memoirs based on real-life events and local mythos,  as developed through his recollections of growing up in the frontier villages of Ladakh, a contested plateau located in the high-altitude Himalayas. Disgracefully disturbed with spastic tremors of post-industrial delirium and cruel power-electronics, his debut album, Fatima, will be released on Danse Noire on January 27, 2023.

  • Fatima, by RUHAIL QAISAR

  • Fatima, by RUHAIL QAISAR